Odd politics

The Artdog Quote of the Week:

Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a good point here, as usual. Problem is, E=mc2  doesn’t threaten certain industries' corporate profits. The climate change "controversy" stems from the same root cause (and had been promoted by some of the exact same people) as the "controversy" over whether smoking causes lung cancer (brace yourself: it does!).

IMAGE: Many thanks to the Climate Reality Project (check out their website!) for this image, and many other resources. 

Artdog Image of Interest: Science Literacy

In honor of school starting all over the country, here's a thought to ponder:

More and more schools are requiring that kids be vaccinated before they can attend. But have you ever thought they could be "vaccinated" by attending and paying attention?

IMAGE: Man, this was a hard one to track down, even with help from TinEye Reverse Image Search. The original photo seems to have come from Time Magazine in 2008. If I put the clues together correctly, it first appeared on the Logic and Science Tumblr in this form, and was quickly picked up by the I F**king Love Science Facebook Page (at least, according to "The Best Page in the Universe"), though I could not locate it listed there now.